Remarks:
This song came out in 2008 and never charted, but it is genius: powwow + rap. Wow. They sound better together than apart. Just listen to the sampled “Hood Nigga” (2007) by Gorilla Zoe on its own. Diplo and Radioclit were the music producers on this one.
There is a Malawian version used for AIDS awareness.
See also:
- songs, the 2000s
- Santigold: L.E.S. Artistes
- Other Diplo songs that have appeared here:
- A Tribe Called Red ft Northern Voice: Sisters – powwow + dubstep
Lyrics:
May I see your driver’s license please?
May I see your driver’s license please?
What’s that in your cassette deck?
All the hoes jockin’, beat steady knockin’
Middle of the stage, got the whole club rockin’
Maybe you can hate but ya bitch steady watchin’
Bet she can’t do it on a dick she poppin’
We bottle poppin’, you cock blockin’
Told ya girl you rap, but ya cd floppin’
You say you gettin’ money man, we ain’t seen nothin’
Ya girl is persistent, she ain’t stoppin’
Man, she say she want a
I keep the perp by the pound
The trunk stay bumpin’
Y’all know we run the town
And I keep a bad bitch around
Thick bitch, long hair, yellow, white, red, brown
(Hood nigga)
Got my chevy sittin’ on 24’s
Flats look like flapjacks
Pancakes? You ain’t know
I’m a play the game how it go
They can take me out the hood
But I’m a keep it hood folk
And I don’t need a scale for the work
I can eyeball perp, I am not you jerk
Hatin’ on me will make your situation worse
You don’t wanna take a ride in that long black hearse
All eyes on me, shawty I’m a bomb first
I’m the truth and they say the truth hurts
Hustle mean hard work, hard work
If you scared, go to church
Man, this rap shit is easy
Every beat I get, I murk
‘Cause I’m a
I keep the perp by the pound
The trunk stay bumpin’
Y’all know we run the town
And I keep a bad bitch around
Thick bitch, long hair, yellow, white, red, brown
Got my chevy sittin’ on 24’s
Flats look like flapjacks
Pancakes? You ain’t know
I’m a play the game how it go
They can take me out the hood
But I’m a keep it hood folk
Day and night
Realize I won’t be easy
Got no light
A job, a wife that’s easy
Always standing in the door
Always the same reason you’re stuck
No guts, no guts
What will you get it up for?
What will you get it up for?
Harder, you’re still stuck in the mire
What will make you want it more?
What will make you want it more?
Harder, get more bang for your dollar
Get it up, you can get it up
Get it up, you can get it up
Get it up, you can get it up
Get it up, you can get it up
Get it up, you can get it up
Get it up, you can get it up
Sometimes I think I harden
When I feel I get fucked up
Yeah, other times I think I harden
When I feel I get spat out
Yeah, I don’t really know what you’re thinking
But I already know what you are
And this is what makes us harden
In this concrete life we got
I break ’em in like shoes and my new jeans
I throw it in like a spanner in your work pen
I watch you want more, curious to dirty things
And make it swing from being slick to new things
I break ’em in like shoes and my new jeans
I throw it in like a spanner in your work pen
I watch you want more, curious to dirty things
And make it swing from being slick to new things
Get it up
Radioclit
Rewind
Diplo
Source: letras.mus.br.
Abagond 
I like M.I.A’s music but her comment regarding Prince seemed very “all lives matter” about not seeing Black or White, just purple. And she was going to headline AfroPunk, even though she is Sri Lankan-British. Would a Black person br allowed to headline an event over there in Sri Lanka?
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Yay another song about selling drugs
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Which is odd because bull (?) — didn’t listen — is bragging how great their (hen’s?) music career is, why do you have to sling? For then fun? Street cred? Huh.
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*the
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I actually love the sound of it. I paid not attention to the lyrics at all (couldn’t even decipher them). If y’all like this, but object to the lyrics, then try A Tribe Called Red. I’m a huge fan of theirs. Same kind of mashup of Powwow and Hip Hop, but without the drug references, if that’s what bothers you.But I liked this just fine!
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I dont really care, it just seems to be a tautology to dis someone’s music career but brag about selling drugs, like is that your day job, ijs.
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@ v8driver
Maybe those types of lyrics aren’t what you needed to hear right now?
But good for you on all the positive changes you’re making. I know it’s not easy. ODAAT.
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@ Ikeke35
Same here – I did not pay much attention to the lyrics and I like A Tribe Called Red, particularly “Sisters”:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/a-tribe-called-red-ft-northern-voice-sisters/
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Lol somebody’s reading my story, thanks solitaire!
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Also, to stay on target, i’m sort of brought back to a film class i had in college. The concept of self-reflexisivity i believe the professor used thr parallax view? An old film from the 60’s. We don’t see that really in music? Or hear, i reckon.
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Street culture? Idk that’s a crumbling cliff,
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